Excerpt: ...house-keepers can rarely leave these matters to rural cooks, and Zibbie could be trusted to sweeten nothing that day. With exclamations of delight the children clamored to help, or "muss" a little in their own way, a privilege often given them at such times. But Annie sent them out-of-doors again with a tone and manner that caused them to tip-toe back past the parlor with a scared look on their faces, and the dining-room door was shut with a bang. Gregory was puzzled. Here was one who had foiled his most adroit ...
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Excerpt: ...house-keepers can rarely leave these matters to rural cooks, and Zibbie could be trusted to sweeten nothing that day. With exclamations of delight the children clamored to help, or "muss" a little in their own way, a privilege often given them at such times. But Annie sent them out-of-doors again with a tone and manner that caused them to tip-toe back past the parlor with a scared look on their faces, and the dining-room door was shut with a bang. Gregory was puzzled. Here was one who had foiled his most adroit temptations, and resisted wrong in a way that was simply heroic, first showing something very like vanity and selfishness, and then temper and passion on what seemed but slight provocation. He did not realize, as many do not, that the petty vexations of life will often sting into the most humiliating displays of weakness one who has the courage and strength to be a martyr. Generals who were as calm and grand in battle as Mont Blanc in a storm have been known to fume like small beer, in camp, at very slight annoyances. Annie's spirit was naturally quick and imperious, brooking opposition from no one. She was also fond of approbation. She rated Gregory's hollow French gallantry at its true worth, but his subsequent sincere respect and admiration, after their mountain adventure, had unconsciously elated her, especially as she felt that she had earned them well. Thus, when he had not intended it, and had given over as hopeless his purpose to tempt her, and dropped it in self-loathing that he should ever have entertained it, he had by his honest gratitude and esteem awakened the dormant vanity which was more sensitive to tributes to her character than to mere personal compliments. The attention she had received the day before had developed this self-complacency still more, and the nice balance of her moral life had been disturbed. It seems that the tempter watches for every vantage. At any rate, as she expressed it, "everything went wrong" that...
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Add this copy of Opening a Chestnut Burr to cart. $5.99, fair condition, Sold by P Peterson Bookseller rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Osseo, WI, UNITED STATES, published 1885 by Dodd, Mead & Co.
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Fair. No Jacket. Book. 16mo-over 5¾"-6¾" tall. Yellow cloth binding. The pages are in good condition with a very few light scattered soil spots. There is a to, from printed in pencil on the front end paper. The book is rated fair because the front cover has lots of soil spotting. The spine and back cover have a few small soil spots.
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Add this copy of Opening a Chestnut Burr (the Works of E. P. Roe) to cart. $7.00, good condition, Sold by Persephone's Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Gastonia, NC, UNITED STATES, published 1890 by Peter Fenelon Collier & Son.
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Good. No Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. pp. 546. 546 pp. Volume IV of "The Works of E. P. Roe." Front hinge cracking; cover scuffed, with wear at head and foot of spine and at corners. Former owner name and address stamped on front pastedown.
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Very Good. No Jacket. Book Handsomely stamped partly stained yellow-orange cloth, 6.25" x 4." A few splash stains & slight crunch upper edge back cover. 1909 inked note verso front cover; clean text. Solid. Attractive! 5208 shelf.
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Very Good+ Book 1899 info FEP, a few faint pencilled underlines in text. b/w frontis. very good+, no dj, pict. pale brown cloth. Compact. Tight 383 pgs.
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Fair/good. No Jacket. Size: 12mo-over 6¾-7¾Tall; Type: Book 1885. If you love fiction, this book is for you. Binding cracked and crooked. Cover stained. Edges and corners worn.
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Very Good+ No Dustjacket. Book New York: Dodd Mead, 1885. Very Good+/no dust jacket. Decorated American trade binding-yellow cloth boards with blue-green and red design, crisp black lettering on cover and spine. No fraying or wear; slightest hint of soiling. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound-no cracking. Brief previous owner inscription on front free endpaper. Red and black decorative title page, with black and white frontispiece illustration. 283 pages.
